• ELIZABETH RYLAND MEARS
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  • SELECTED RESUME
  • ELIZABETH RYLAND MEARS
  • 10160 Hampton Road, Fairfax Station, VA  22039    703-690-2545   
  • E-mail: Elizwndhil@aol.com
  • Web Site: www.ElizabethMears.com
  • GRANTS AND AWARDS
  •                   2004    Elected to the Board of Trustees Creative Glass Center of America
  •                   2003    Award of Excellence, Washington Craft Show 03
  •                   2003    Award of Excellence in Glass, Art Baltimore

    2002    Award of Excellence in Glass, the Cohn Family Trust Prize, Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA

    •  2002    NICHE AWARD 2003 in the category of Flameworked Glass for The Accordian Book:  “The NAGA Book”, created in collaboration with daughter, L. Lindsey Mears
    •        2002    Award of Second Place, “North American Glass 2002”, for Standing Book: “The Bone Woman”, created in collaboration with daughter, Lindsey Mears
  •                   2002    NICHE AWARD Finalist in the categories: Flameworked Glass and Goblets

        • 2001    NICHE AWARD 2001 in the category of Goblets for “Goblet with Frog and                               Pomegranates”

      •       2000    NICHE AWARD Finalist in the categories:  Flameworked Glass and Judaica
      •       2000    Elected to the Board of Directors, Renwick Alliance, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, Chairman of the Distinguished Artists’s Series          
  •                   1999    Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
  •                   1999    NICHE AWARD 1999 in the category of GOBLETS for “Goblet With
  •                               Two Blown Fish”
  •                   1996    Full Scholarship, The Studio The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
  •                   1990    Finalist in MetroArt II Competition--KALEIDOSCOPE (23ftx17ftx12ft).
  • SELECTED EXHIBITS
  •                   2006    Fraser Gallery, “Compelled by Content II”, Bethesda, MD
  •                   2006    Habatat Galleries, “34th Annual International Glass Invitational”, MI
  •                   2006    Arts in Embassies, selected works, U.S. State Department
  •                   2005    Ironwood Gallery, “New Sculptural Glass”, Invitational, Ridgefield, CT
  •                   2005    PRISM Contemporary Glass, “Anniversary Invitational”, Chicago, IL
  •                   2005    S.O.F.A.--New York, Palm Beach, Chicago
  •                   2005    Habatat Galleries , “Fragile Nature II”, Invitational, Royal Oak, MI
      •       2005    Liberty Museum, Four Artists’ Glass Books:  “Once Upon a Time In Glass”, Invitational, Philadelphia, PA
  •                   2005    “Glass: Compelled By Content”, Invitation, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD
      •                   2005    “Rhythms:  Six Women Sculptors In Glass”, Invitational, Art 6 Gallery                               Richmond,VA
  •                   2004    Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, “Glass Goblets”, Louisville, KY
  •                   2004    ALIANZA Gallery, “Images in Glass”, Invitational, Boston, MA
        • 2004    Kane Marie Gallery, “In Collaboration with My Daughter:  The Art Glass of                               Elizabeth Ryland Mears and L. Lindsey Mears”, Virginia Beach, VA
  •                   2004    Ironwood Gallery,“Innovative American Glass”, Invitational, Ridgefield,CT
  •                   2003    Philabaum Glass, “Meditations in Glass”, Invitational, Tucson, Arizona
  •                   2003    Morgan Glass Gallery, “In Petto”, Invitational, Pittsburgh, PA
      •       2003    Penland Gallery, “Familiar Artists: Work by Artistic Siblings, Parents, and                               Children”, Invitational, Penland, NC
      •       2003   Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space, “A Thiry Year Perspective”, curated by Sally Hansen, Washington, DC
      •       2002    Pyramid Atlantic/1111 Sculpture Space, “Built by Hand:  the Book as Art”,                               International Juried Book Exhibition, Washington DC
  •                   2002    Glass Gallery, “New Directions”, Invitational, Bethesda, MD
      •       2002    Botanical Museum of theHarvard Museum of Natural History, “Inspired by Nature”, invitational, Boston, MA
  •                   2002    Renwick Gallery, 20th Anniversary Benefit, “Celebrating Crafts”,                                                 invitational, Washington DC
      •       2002    “North American Glass 2002”, Second Place, Guilford, CT, juried by Josh Simpson
  •                   2002    Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space, “Artists’ Screens--Contemporary                                                 Perspectives”, Curated by Binnie B. Fry, Washington DC
  •                   2001    Hsinchu Museum, “Hsinchu International Glass Art Festival and                                                 Symposium”, Invitational, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
  •                   2001    Kentucky Museum of Arts + Design, “Southern Women of Influence: 
  •                               An Exhibition and Celebration”, Invitational, Louisville, KY
  •                   2001    Philabaum Contemporary Art Glass, “Regions of the Flame II”, Invitational, Tucson, Arizona
      •       2000    Museum of Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion, “Living in the Moment:  Contemporary Artists Celebrate Jewish Time”, curated by Laura Kruger, New York, NY
      •       2000    Artisans Center of Virginia, Founding Artist, curated by Michael Monroe, former Director of the Renwick Gallery, Washington DC
      •       2000    Guilford Handcraft Center, “North American Glass 2000”, curated by William Carlson, Guilford, CT
      •       1999    Florida Craftsmen Gallery, “The Tip of the Iceberg”, curated by Ginny Ruffner, St. Petersburg, FL
      •       1999    Joyce Scalzo Fine Arts Gallery, “L’Eau Claire De Cristal” (Crystal Clear Water), curated by Robert Mickelsen, Bellaire Bluffs, FL
      •       1999    d’Art Center Gallery, “Southern Glass Now!”, curated by Gary Baker, Curator of Glass at The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
  •                   1998    Grohe Glass Gallery, “One Woman and Glass”, Boston, MA
  •                   1998    Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, “Flameworking ‘98”, Pittsburgh, PA
  •                   1998    Gallery of Guilford Handcraft Center, “North American Glass1998”,Curated by Suanne Greening, Director, International Glass Museum, Tacoma,  WA,                               Guilford, CT                                  
      •       1998    Sylvia Plotkin Museum of Phoenix, ‘98 International “Ceremony in the Desert”, Scottsdale, Arizona
      •       1998    The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, “Masters of Ceremony: The Next Generation”, Invitational, Atlanta, GA
      •       1997    The Hickory Museum of Art, “Spotlight 97”, Juried by Kate Carmel, Chief Curator, American Craft Museum of New York City, Hickory, NC
      •       1997    Craft Alliance, “Glass and Gas:  A Survey of Contemporary                                                 Flamework”, Invitational, St. Louis, MO
      •       1996    Dadian Gallery,Wesley Theological Seminary, “Vessels and Vestments”,                               Invitational, Washington, DC
  •                   1996    The Guilford Handcraft Center, Inc., “North American Glass 96”, Curated  by Pike Powers, Artistic Director of Pilchuck Glass School, CT.                                                 
  • TEACHING EXPERIENCE
  •                   2005     Instructor, Flameworked Glass,  Touchstone Center for Crafts, PA
  •                   2004     Instructor, Flameworked Glass, Washington Sculpture Center, Wash. DC
  •                   2003     Instructor, Flameworked Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
  •                   2002     Instructor, Flameworked Glass, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
  •                   2001     Teaching Assistant, Flameworked Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, WA
  •                   2000     Instructor, Flameworked Glass, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
  •                   2000     Lecture, “Glass Music As Visual Art”, Glass Music International                                                  Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  •                   1999     Instructor, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, Sculptural Lampworking
  •                   1999     Demonstration in flameworking, Glass Art Society ‘99, Tampa, FL
  •                   1998      Studio assistant, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
  •                   1998-02 Instructor, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA, Sculptural Lampworking
  •                   1997-98 Glass Workshop, Cape Cod, MA, Sculptural Lampworking
  •                   1997,98 Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, CT, Sculptural Lampworking
  •                   1991-04 Faculty Art League School, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
  •                   1991-95 Faculty Smithsonian Institution, Resident Associate Program, Wash. D.C
  •                   1994,95 Workshops:  Stained Glass, National Building Museum, Washington DC
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  • EDUCATION
      •        2004   The Image in Glass, Painting and Sandblasting, Denise Stillwagon Leone,The Studio, Corning Museum of Glass
  •                   2003   The Image in Glass, Judith Schaechter, Workshop for the Renwick Alliance
  •                   2001   Flameworking, Jill Reynolds, Pilchuck Glass School, Teaching Assistant
  •                   2000   Glass Blowing, Laura Donefer, at Workshop for the Renwick Alliance
  •                   2000   Exploration of Plate Glass Working Techniques, Sidney Hutter, at                                                Workshop for the Renwick Alliance
      •       1999   Sculpture with Glass, Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Pilchuck Glass School,                              Lampworking scholarship                             
  •                   1998    Painting on Glass, Cappy Thompson, Peninsula Glass Guild, Norfolk,VA
  •                   1998    Flameworking, James Minson, Penland School of Crafts, studio assistant
      •        1996    Advanced Lampworking, Sally Prasch, The Studio Corning Museum of Glass, full scholarship
  •                   1995    Lampworking and Enameling, Hubert Stern and Heike Polster, Penland
  •                   1995     Blowing Goblets at the Lamp/Don Niblack at Penland School of Crafts
  •                   1994    Advanced Flameworking/Robert Mickelsen at Pilchuck Glass School
  •                   1993    Sculpture in Glass/Therman Statom at Workshop for the Renwick Alliance
  •                   1993    Flameworking/Susan Plum at Penland School of Crafts
      •       1992    Flameworking/Fred Birkhill, Shane Fero, University of Maryland, College  Park, MD
  •                   1990    Flameworking/Fred Birkhill at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
  •                   1987    Painting on Glass/Albinus Elskus
  •                   1966    BS in Biology, Chemistry, Education/ Purdue University
  • PUBLICATIONS
      •        2003   Book, FLAMEWORKING;  creating glassbeads, sculptures & functional objects, authored by Elizabeth Ryland Mears, published by LARK BOOKS
  • SELECTED COMMISSIONS
  •                   1999-00  Commissioned to design, fabricate, and install Sanctuary Windows
  •                                  (388 sq ft), St. Christophers Episcopal Church, Springfield, VA
  •                   1998        Chapel Windows (39.5 sq ft), St. Mary’s Catholic School, Alexandria, VA
  •                   1996, 97, 98  Corporate Award, National Restaurant Association, Washington, DC
  •                   1997        White House Ornament Collection, The White House, Washington, DC
  •                   1996       Chapel Windows (60 sq ft), Fourth Presbyterian, Bethesda, MD
  •                   1988-1994  Windows St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Burke, VA (381 sq ft)                         
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